Re: Wireless - Simon 3 or Visonic Powermax Plus

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Karl Magnus" <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Robert L. Bass wrote:
>
> >
> > When I worked in Connecticut I preferred to install the master control
panel
> > in the basement.  In Florida there are almost no basements so people
often
> > install the panel in a laundry or utility room.  Some techs put them in
the
> > garage but that's not a good idea -- too easy to defeat.
> >
>
> ??? -- Don't FBI statistics show that MOST residential burglary/robbery
> suspects enter through the front door? The second favorite entry was, if
>   I'm not mistaken, the back sliding glass door.

I've seen the aftermath of maybe 100 break-ins and in all but one instance
they came in through the front or back door, the one time they came through
a window it appears they did that just to open the back door

> Now, if this is true, how does the panel being located in the garage
> make it "too easy to defeat" in comparison to the laundry room/pantry?
> It seems that the laundry room/pantry is just as accessible.

Biggest problem with the garage is it's not temperature controlled and in a
lot of cases it is outside of the protected area

> This "too easy to defeat" paranoia is coming from people who think about
> alarm installation too much without actually doing it.

A little paranoia in my opinion isn't a bad thing, I'd rather overthink an
installation than not